1. HISTORY OF TELEVISION
BBC started daily transmission on November 14, 1922. By then more than one Million licenses had been issued for
50 shillings
1923 - John Logic Bai began developing a system by which television would be made possible.
1926 - John Baird made television possible with the help of selfridg. This was a 3 inch television manufactured by
GE in Germany, Denes von Mihaly demonstrated a mechanical 30 line system called Tehelor win a picture
rate of 10 frames / second.
1929 - Herbert E. Ives demonstrated a colour Television system of 50 lines from AT & T in New York to
Washington DC.
- November 18, 1929 - Zworykin demonstrated 120 line system of electronic television at 24 frames / second
( Kinescope tube ).
1930 July 30, NBC started its first Television Station in New York called W2XBS
1931 - Manfred Von Ardence showed his television at the Berlin Radio show which debuted at the Berlin
Olympics in 1936.
1934 - BBC appointed a committee under Lord Selsdon to work on the viability of setting up a public television
service
- The committee proposed the two new high definition systems ( Bai 240 line and Marconi ‘EMI’ 405 lines)
2. - Gerald Cox was appointed the Director of Television.
- Television development moved further in Europe than it did in U. S.
- In 1938 NBC cameras transmitted live events from its experimental New York Station.
- In 1939 President Franklin Roosvelt was shown welcoming visitors to the world fair.
- When the world was broke out television development was curtailed.
- After three years of the culmination of the World War II. U.S set the trend of being the second best which many
people reckon as the golden age.
- NBC broke new ground with view programmes Hour Glass – a variety show. This was the first programme to
have a commercial sponsors ( chase and sanborn coffee).
- 1947 base ball world series became the biggest televised event.
- By 1948 U.S television consisted of four net works ABC, CBS, NBS and Du Mont) with 30 stations.
- In 1948 Early tests of Cable Television in rural area of Lansford, South Africa
1956 – Kinescope was replaced by video tape improved the visual quality.
1957 - Remote Control was introduced
3. Doordarshan
Area - 79% Population - 91.26
National Channels DD 1 - 5 + 1
RLSS 11
State Network Services - 9
International Channel - 1 (DD India)
SITE 1975 – 76
DD Bharati 26th
Jan. 2002
DD News 3rd
Nov. 2003
DD Urdu 15th
August 2006
DD Gnanadarshan 26th
Jan. 2000
DD Sports 18th
Mar.1994
DD India 14th
Mar. 1995
RLSS 1st
Oct. 1993
DD Metro 1st
April, 1993
DD Kashmir 1st
Jan. 2000
DD Loksabha
DD Rajya Sabha
